Elisabetta Caminèr Turra
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Elisabetta Caminèr Turra | |
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Born | |
Died | 7 June 1796 Orgiano, Italy | (aged 44)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Writer |
Elisabetta Caminèr Turra (29 July 1751 – 7 June 1796), was a Venetian writer.
She worked with her father, Domenico, as a translator. Her husband, Antonio Turra, was a noted physician and botanist from Vicenza. From 1774, she participated in the paper Giornale enciclopedico. In 1783, she founded the paper Nuovo giornale enciclopedico. She was active as a translator of foreign plays. She was described as beautiful, energetic and intelligent.[1]
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- 1751 births
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- Translators to Italian
- 18th-century Venetian writers
- 18th-century Venetian women
- 18th-century translators
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